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Body Knowledge and Control Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health
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Routledge
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes towards the body reflected in the curriculum of schools, in the teaching of Physical Education and... Read more
Preface, List of contributors, Foreword, Educating bodies: schooling and the constitution of society, Acknowledgements, PART I Introduction: pedagogy, culture and identity, PART II The social context of physical education and health, PART III Schooling the body: pedagogies of identity, PART IV Future directions: research and development in PEH, Index
Biography
John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright
